ABSTRACT
This essay highlights the effects of COVID-19 on black maternal health. The author examines challenges faced by pregnant women who have contracted the virus and how certain policies affect their care. In a medical system laced with racism under normal circumstances, COVID has affected such women adversely. The principles of healthcare ethics assist in identifying violations in the primary care of treatment of mothers and their newborns while identifying ways to address continuing problems associated with black infant mortality and reproductive injustice.
